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In mathematics, a recurrence relation is an equation according to which the th term of a sequence of numbers is equal to some combination of the previous terms. Often, only previous terms of the sequence appear in the equation, for a parameter that is independent of ; this number is called the order of the relation.
If the {} and {} are constant and independent of the step index n, then the TTRR is a Linear recurrence with constant coefficients of order 2. Arguably the simplest, and most prominent, example for this case is the Fibonacci sequence , which has constant coefficients a n = b n = 1 {\displaystyle a_{n}=b_{n}=1} .
Two important examples are the partitions restricted to only odd integer parts or only even integer parts, with the corresponding partition functions often denoted () and (). A theorem from Euler shows that the number of strict partitions is equal to the number of partitions with only odd parts: for all n , q ( n ) = p o ( n ) {\displaystyle q ...
The order of the sequence is the smallest positive integer such that the sequence satisfies a recurrence of order d, or = for the everywhere-zero sequence. [ citation needed ] The definition above allows eventually- periodic sequences such as 1 , 0 , 0 , 0 , … {\displaystyle 1,0,0,0,\ldots } and 0 , 1 , 0 , 0 , … {\displaystyle 0,1,0,0 ...
Partitions of n with largest part k. In number theory and combinatorics, a partition of a non-negative integer n, also called an integer partition, is a way of writing n as a sum of positive integers. Two sums that differ only in the order of their summands are considered the same partition. (If order matters, the sum becomes a composition.)
A sequence () is called hypergeometric if the ratio of two consecutive terms is a rational function in , i.e. (+) / (). This is the case if and only if the sequence is the solution of a first-order recurrence equation with polynomial coefficients.
Analogously to Pascal's triangle, these numbers may be calculated using the recurrence relation [2] = + (). As base cases, p 1 ( 1 ) = 1 {\displaystyle p_{1}(1)=1} , and any value on the right hand side of the recurrence that would be outside the triangle can be taken as zero.
In mathematics (including combinatorics, linear algebra, and dynamical systems), a linear recurrence with constant coefficients [1]: ch. 17 [2]: ch. 10 (also known as a linear recurrence relation or linear difference equation) sets equal to 0 a polynomial that is linear in the various iterates of a variable—that is, in the values of the elements of a sequence.